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172. It shall be the duty of the police officers of Baltimore
county to execute all orders of any of the said sanitary officers,
so far as they may relate to the sanitary condition of said
county.

173. In case of any epidemic or contagious or infectious dis-
eases within the county, the County Commissioners shall be
empowered to send one or all of said sanitary officers to the
locality where said epidemic exists, for which services they
shall receive no extra compensation.

174. The said sanitary officers are hereby made sub-regis-
trars without additional compensation, and vaccine physicians
for their respective districts, and it shall be their duty to vacci-
nate, free of charge, every child whose guardian or parents are
too. poor to pay for the service.

175. The County Commissioners are authorized to employ a
sufficient number of men with horses and carts for the removal
of garbage, ashes and all other offal in such thickly populated
places as they shall consider necessary; and the said sanitary
officers are authorized and empowered to have control of the
persons so employed as removers of garbage, and to report any
failure or delinquency on their part to the County Commis-
sioners.

176. All residents of such places in Baltimore county as may
be supplied with a force for the collection of garbage, ashes
and other offal, shall be required to collect all offal accumulat-
ing in their premises into suitable receptacles, and put them in
places convenient to the removers of garbage and other offal;
and any resident who shall allow such offal to accumulate on
his premises without so collecting and so placing it, shall be
subject to a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five
dollars, for every such offense, to be recovered as other fines
and costs are recovered.

177. And any person who shall commit a nuisance by throw-
ing any dead animal or offal of any kind into any highway, by-
way or alley, or upon any vacant lot in any town or village in
Baltimore county, or in the vicinity thereof, shall be subject to
a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars.

178. Every owner of a lot which is supplied with water from
wells or springs, in any town or village having more than five
hundred inhabitants in Baltimore county, shall be required to
place in each and every privy, water closet or outhouse a water-
tight box for the reception of urinary or foecal matter, under a
penalty of five dollars for refusing or neglecting to supply the
same, and such box shall be emptied by the occupant, and it